Japan is a proud country famous for its efficient cars, raw dishes, aesthetically-driven culture, and popular fashion. It is also famous for something the world, young and old, celebrates and labels as purely Japanese – anime.
Anime may be linguistically the abbreviation of Animation. But around the world, anime is always associated with Japanese Cartoons. Anime has special features that whenever people see the cartoons, they always recognize them to be Japanese.
In the early 20th century, Japanese cartoonists began making natively-inspired works influenced by Western cartoons. In the 1970\'s, Osamu Tezuka popularized a form of Japanese Animation called manga, translated as whimsical pictures. Manga is a mixture of Ukiyo-e, 17th to 20th century Japanese woodblock pictures depicting images of floating worlds and popular post-WWII Western cartoons. Soon, new characteristics and genres rose in Manga and have become the fundamental elements of Anime today from the giants robot genre called mecha (Gundam, Macross), to the more complex and mature story lines of the gegika (translated as Dramatic Pictures).
The genres and styles of the cartoon represent the characteristics of Anime. Anime has a variety of genres with thematic elements. The themes include both simple and complex story lines, involving humor, romance, social commentary, action, brutal violence, horror, superheroes, even pornography. Almost no two characters are alike.
There is a variety of style but all use some styles that are fundamental in almost all Anime works. The most peculiar is the over-exaggerated eyes of Anime characters; the eyes portray the characters\' emotions distinctively. Aside from the large eyes, characters also have a large head, with loss of proportion to a small body. Another style is emotions expressed by exaggerated physical reactions. Artists depict a “faulty face” (bleeding nose and watery eyes) of the characters during times of anger, stress, humiliation, love.
Anime is not only celebrated in TV and prints but also in fashion and the Web.
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